Re: PROPSAL: import Apple's mDNSResponder

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Ty Sarna wrote:
> 9) Write a new nss_mdns plugin. The current pkgsrc one is a wrapper
> around one written for Linux, and it has issues. (OPTION: separate
> nss_mdns.so plugin, or if we build the client functionality into
> libc, do we build in the nss plugin too?) I have open questions
> about how this integrates with regular DNS-SD (a'la PR 32373 -- see
> David Young's message on tech-net from 20090303)

Is this step intended to imply "make mdns usable as a backend for
gethostbyname(3), via nsdispatch(3) and nsswitch.conf(5)"?

--apb (Alan Barrett)